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A day later, Patriots QB Tom Brady wakes up early and breaks down what was "not a good performance for us."

Ian Rapoport Monday, November 08, 2010

As he does on a weekly basis, Patriots QB Tom Brady woke up early and talked about the ugly 34-14 loss to the Browns on the Dennis & Callahan Show on WEEI Radio. And he still seemed extremely frustrated with the result.

"You're only as good as your last game," Brady told WEEI during his weekly appearance. "And, man, we were the greatest team in football there for a few weeks and now we suck. We can't do anything, we're a terrible team and terrible coaches and players. But we know what the truth is. When we play well, we're a pretty good team. When we play poorly, we're as bad as anybody else. We got to make an effort to play well on a weekly basis."

Here is the audio file of Brady's interview. Want more highlights?

Brady, on the celebrating by the Browns coaches: "I think they deserved to be doing backflips yesterday. I don't think we did anything well in any phase of the game. ... And they were celebrating like that coaching for us. It's just their personality. It's a big win for them. If we wanted to calm them down, we could've done that by playing better."

Brady, on if the Patriots overlooked the Browns: "I don't think it was one of those games we took lightly. Believe me, we knew we were in for a dogfight. The way the game started, the first three or four minutes, we knew what kind of game it was going to be. We didn't do enough in any phase of the game. We got to get balls into the end zone. It was a frustrating day. We're a lot better team than we played like yesterday. That was a great opportunity yesterday against a team that had been struggling and we couldn't play well enough to take advantage. You'd love to think you can have 22 minutes of time of possession, lose the turnover battle, and think you can come away with a win. You can't. You can't play poorly and expect to win."

Brady, on the Browns dropping countless defenders into coverage: "They picked their poison. Sometimes they blitzed, sometimes they didn't. Whatever they did choose to do, we gotta do a better job against it and find the guy and complete the pass. When they blitz us, we got to get guys open quick on a consistent basis and we weren't doing that. On critical third downs, we weren't connecting passes."

Brady, on the Browns completely changing their second-half game plan: "That's what they choose to do. They had two weeks to prepare and they put a lot into the game. Coach (Bill Belichick) said at halftime, 'All that stuff we couldn't stop in the first half, don't worry because they got a lot more stuff in the second half.' He was telling us all last week, too. There were too many plays out there that were bad plays."

Brady, on if the Patriots have the playmakers to get it done: "I certainly think so. But we got to get the ball to the playmakers, to guys that have proven what they can do for us on a consistent basis. At times we did that. ... Nothing is more challenging than going against the Steelers. But we have to focus on ourselves. We need to get better and play more like the team we've been playing like -- tough, smart, physical. I wouldn't say we were smart or physical yesterday."

Brady, on if he must be more accurate: "We'd like to get a completion every time we throw the ball. But I got to put the ball on the money and make it easy for guys to catch it. Get it to those guys to run with it. I got to do a better job of that."